Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
KJV
Conticuit populus meus, eo quod non habuerit scientiam : quia tu scientiam repulisti, repellam te, ne sacerdotio fungaris mihi ; et oblita es legis Dei tui, obliviscar filiorum tuorum et ego.
Vulgate
ὡμοιώθη ὁ λαός μου ὡς οὐκ ἔχων γνῶσιν· ὅτι σὺ ἐπίγνωσιν ἀπώσω, κἀγὼ ἀπώσομαι σὲ τοῦ ἱερατεύειν μοι· καὶ ἐπελάθου νόμον θεοῦ σου, κἀγὼ ἐπιλήσομαι τέκνων σου.
LXX
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
ASV
נִדְמ֥וּ עַמִּ֖/י מִ/בְּלִ֣י הַ/דָּ֑עַת כִּֽי אַתָּ֞ה הַ/דַּ֣עַת מָאַ֗סְתָּ וְ/אֶמְאָֽסְא/ךָ֙ מִ/כַּהֵ֣ן לִ֔/י וַ/תִּשְׁכַּח֙ תּוֹרַ֣ת אֱלֹהֶ֔י/ךָ אֶשְׁכַּ֥ח בָּנֶ֖י/ךָ גַּם אָֽנִי
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Themes
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Deceit is a thing easily detected, and weak, though it be daubed outside with ten thousand colors. For as those who whitewash decayed walls, cannot by the plastering make them sound, so too those who lie are easily found out, as in fact was the case here with the Jews. For when Christ said to them, If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto Me; We have heard, says one of the…
Cross-references
- 1Chr 28:9 — And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the
- 1Sam 2:12 — Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
- 1Sam 2:12 — Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
- 1Sam 2:28 — And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerin
- 1Sam 3:12 — In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.
- 1Sam 15:26 — And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
- 2Chr 15:3 — Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.
- 2Cor 4:3 — But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
- 2Kgs 17:16 — And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
- Deut 32:28 — For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
- Ezek 44:23 — And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
- Hos 2:13 — And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
- Hos 2:13 — And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
- Hos 4:1 — Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
- Hos 4:12 — My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
- Hos 5:4 — They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
- Hos 6:6 — For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- Hos 8:1 — Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
- Hos 8:12 — I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
- Hos 8:14 — For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
- Hos 13:6 — According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
- Isa 1:3 — The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
- Isa 3:12 — As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
- Isa 5:13 — Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
- Isa 5:13 — Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
- Isa 17:10 — Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
- Isa 27:11 — When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, a
- Isa 28:7 — But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way t
- Isa 43:27 — Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me.
- Isa 45:20 — Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
- Isa 56:10 — His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
- Isa 56:10 — His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
- Jer 2:8 — The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not pr
- Jer 2:8 — The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not pr
- Jer 4:22 — For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Jer 4:22 — For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
- Jer 5:3 — O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder t
- Jer 5:4 — Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
- Jer 5:21 — Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
- Jer 6:19 — Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.